Million Clues Completes its First Year...Its our Happy Birthday...

Its time to celebrate at Million Clues as it completes its first year! At this time I would like to thank all those who extended their support to me, including my most valued email readers and all those who posted their comments here for me.

As part of the celebrations I have opened up the blog to its full view for a week so that you can see all the previous postings on the homepage. You can download the whole of the blog by saving this page. [ File > Save As... > And save ! that's all ]
So this page will take time to load in slower connections. Sorry for that !

Here is the event history of the last year...
Hope to see u all soon..
With lots of love.
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Event History of First Year at Million Clues !

Oct 4 2006 : Started Blogging
Oct 6 : First Posting ( Posting before that were simply trials.. )
Oct 23 : I get my first comment (http://millionclues.blogspot.com/2006/10/browse-faster-do-more.html )

Nov 4 : Signs in For FeedBlitz
Nov 5 : First Change in Templete
Nov 6 : Google Adsence comes to play
Nov 11 : Search Box appears
Nov 11 : Language Conversion Appears
Nov 12 : Subscription service begins
Nov 22 : Added My Blog to Google Webmaster Tools for analytics
Nov 25 : Updated My Blogger Profile
Nov 28 : Google First indexed my blog on their index for search
Nov 30 : First Email Reader Signs in..

Dec 22 : Added My Blog To tracksy for analytics
Dec 24 : Removed the Adds at the top of the homepage ( Inorder to comply with the policy and give a nice reader experience )
Dec 30 : Published Some official documents ( like Disclaimer, Policy CopyRight Notice Terms of Service and About Me )
Dec 31 : Separated Links section as a separate one. Now you can add your link here (http://millionclues.blogspot.com/2006/12/add-your-link-here.html )

Jan 2 2007 : Added My blog to Google analytics
Jan 06 : Instant Mailer Shows up
Jan 06 : Million CLues First Survey . It was supposed to end on Feb 14 but had to be extended as its response was poor.

Feb 17 : The survey was extende till the end of december 31 2007 due to poor response of the survey.
Feb - March : I had to give up blogging partly as the posts were scarce since I was really busy with academics.

March 31 : Restarted Blogging . I had 11 subscribers then.

April : Again posts were less because of my exams
April 29 : Back in action : Posts started coming regularly...

May 14 : MillionClues first Hardware hack.. M C hacks into a headset...
May 17 : MillionClues official community in orkut is created

June 2007 : I did a campaign for promoting Million Clues. The campaign was not a success.
July 05 2007: Changed the subtitle to "The Search begins... " From "To Life UnExplored "

August 2007 : Edited the rounders template - drastic change.

September 30 : Changed the template back to the origional one cuz the changed one did not click.

Oct 5 2006 : Today ! Celebrations on completing first succesful year... All the older posts from the beginning are put up in the home page

 

How To Send Text Messages Via Bluetooth

The Bluetooth functionality of mobile phones enables us to send files between bluetooth enabled devices. But usually bluetooth enabled phones do not have an in built feature with which we can send text messages via bluetooth to another bluetooth device in the vicinity. To do this usually we have to install some third party software.

There is another simple way to do this. This works on Nokia Smartphones. You can use the Notes application that comes pre-installed on the phone. Just type the message as a note and then press Options > Send > via Bluetooth. This sends the text as a message. To forward text messages that you have recieved, first copy that message to a note and then do the same as mentioned above.

I know that this is not a very handy option. But this is the only way out. Else you can find third party softwares that can even chat via text messages [ using Bluetooth ] .

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International Photography Day

One day kept apart for the Photographers in this world and for the art of Photogrpahy.
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60th Independence of India

Independent India Just turned 60 !
I wish all my readers a Happy Independence day.

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Get Free SMS From MyToday.com : Service Available For Indians Only

MyToday.com Offers a variety of Free SMS Services to its subscribers. It can send you Jokes, Updated News, Bollywood news, Tips and much more.  See the list of SMS Services and KeyWords.

The best thing about MyToday is that it is free. You have to send a request SMS first. ( Your Subscriber will charge you a STD SMS for this )

Here is the way to request.

• To subscribe for Jokes Send "START JOKES" without quotes to 9845398453. Replace JOKES with the keyword of your choice. List of Keywords is available here.

• There is a much better way to save on the SMS charges that your subscriber will charge you for the request SMS. You can do this by registering your mobile with MyToday.com. SMS REG to 9845398453. Your will recieve your password as reply.
  Then you can login with your mobile no. and password at MyToday.com and Subscribe for those services for that you need online without sending separate SMS requests.

Service is presently available in India Only.

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Make Motion Blurred Backgrounds On Your Cam - Photography Trick

See the above image. See its background. It is blurred but I didnt use any editing software to make this effect.

I kept the camera in my hand [ the cam was pointing to me..] and pressed the shutter while I was in motion. To get similar effect do the same. Take your picture revolve with the camera facing you. Make sure that the there is no relative motion between you and the camera. Also take care of your facial expressions. Look as if you are standing still. Use lower ISO values and slower shutter speeds to get better results.

Experiment this one many times with different camera settings to get good results. I had to take 12 snaps to get one right.

Good Luck!
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Create Your Own Customised Search Engine In Google Style...

If you have ever visted Google.com You should have really admired the look and feel of the webpage and ofcourse the Google logo. Google.com 'weighs' just 13kb and is among the fastest loading pages on the web.

If you would like to see your own Search Engine with a logo that is as cool as the Google Logo, visit http://www.goglogo.com. This is another crazy website on the web.

To create your own search engine you dont need to know anything. There is nothing like a registration or any kind of fees. All you have to do is enter the name for the logo and then press the ' Create My Search Page ' Button on Goglogo.com

Its really creative and worth visiting...

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Top 10 Results Of Search For 'millionclues' On Google

I googled for my blog with the search keyword 'millionclues'. And every result pointed to my blog. Thank You Google!

Here are the search results.

See the first result...It directly points to http://www.millionclues.blogspot.com/. So now you can reach my blog by going to google.com and just enter millionclues as the query and then press the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button there.

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New 7 World Wonders are Out ; Taj Mahal is in...

The New 7 Wonders Were announced on 07-07-2007 in the official declaration ceremony held in Libson, Portugal by the New7Wonders Foundation.

Its a matter of great pride for the Indians that the Taj Mahal have found its way in to the list.

The New Wonders Of the World are :

* Taj Mahal, India

* Chichen Itza, Mexico

* The Roman Colloseum, Italy

* Petra, Jordan

* The Great Wall of China

* Christ Redeemer, Brazil

* Machu Picchu, Peru

This list is not approved by the UNESCO officially.

To see the New 7 Wonders on www.new7wonders.com click here

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Shortcut to Select the First Boot Device For Your Computer

What do you do If you have to boot from a CD? Usually you restart your computer and your keep tapping F2 or the Delete Key to Enter the Setup of the BIOS and you change your Boot device to CD-ROM ..right..? And after that you have to change it back to your Hard Disk to boot from Hard Disk again.

One of my friends, Jeril taught me a rahter simple way. While you restart your computer press F8 instead of F2. Then You will get a quick menu asking for the boot device. All you have to do is to select the boot device from the list aned press enter. Your System boots form the selected device for that session. It automatically resets the boot device selection to the earlier value. i.e You dont have to change it back again.

He demonstated that on a AMD based PC and did not work for me. Instead F10 worked in place of F8 on my Pentium-4 based PC.

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